Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

This is really, really well done. Thank you!

All the open source ngrok alternatives I've seen miss the importance of inspect and replay - looks like you've done that nicely.

pixxxel 2 years ago | |

Thank you so much

bluelightning2k 2 years ago |

What was your incentive for building this?

pixxxel 2 years ago | |

Nothing really, just wanted to see if I could build it.

joshmanders 2 years ago | |

Why does everything have to have an incentive outside of "because I wanted to"?

bluelightning2k 2 years ago | | |

Why does every question have to have a purpose deeper than "because I was curious"?

ibash 2 years ago | | |

banana

compootr 2 years ago | | |

true

hacker_newz 2 years ago | | |

Because open-sourcing and publicizing a tool with no valid use-case comes off silly.

joshmanders 2 years ago | | |

You sound like someone who would throw their child's painting away instead of putting it on the fridge because it was just a piece of paper with a few brushes of paint slapped onto it.

padolsey 2 years ago | | |

WHAT LOL. You're on hacker news and you're complaining that people are hacking?! Literally the entire tenet is playing around and experimenting for our own edification and fun. On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted a message on the comp.os.minix newsgroup... something to the effect of "just a hobby, won’t be big and professional". I MEAN COME ON MR HACKER_NEWZ. The irony is deafening.

wutwutwat 2 years ago |

Full circle. Jeff originally wrote the open source program localtunnel[0], which ngrox was originally built on top of (though I doubt it is still based on that but maybe), now an open source solution to replace the commercial thing, that's based on the open source thing :)

The beauty and freedom of open source shines through

[0] https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel

apitman 2 years ago | |

Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:

OG localtunnel (23 Jan 2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...

Other localtunnel (17 Jun 2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...

ngrok (20 Mar 2013): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...

I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

kincl 2 years ago |

Relevant awesome list on tunneling: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

nurple 2 years ago |

I'd just like to take a moment to thank you for releasing it as AGPL.